Going too fast for conditions and too clise to a school bus. Minor injuries but it shut down i5 for a few hours. Driver had an invalid cdl.
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This could easily turn political…
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Fait point, owner/operator already cited for no cdl in Wa just a few weeks ago. Arrested this time.
Yes it could.
I’ll take the first bite:
If the driver of that hauler had been going maybe 10mph slower, this wouldn’t even be a story.
There. I made it political.
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I do not find your position that going fasterr than the pasted speed limit is the cause of all worldly ills to be political at all.
Th only way to stop truck drivers from going as fast as they canis to pay them in such a way that they cannot increase their earnings by speeding. Paying them by the hour , not by the mile or a percentage of the revenue would work.
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How some here reacted to such position made it seem as though it was political. Enough to complain in numbers big enough to have me suspended.
I always thought there was certain types of truck driving reserved for high dollar or dangerous cargo (think fuel tankers). The drivers would be the ones with a stellar driving record and be paid accordingly. The accident in the OP does not have a legal license? When I see a car carrier on the highway with 7 brand new BMW’s you would think the driver would be upper crust among Semi drivers.
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A few hours? Crash on I75 in Florida shut the road down for more than 15 hours. Fiery semi crash on Florida’s Turnpike kills 1 in Kissimmee
Y’all seem to forget that not all semi truck drivers are long haul and or paid by the mile, my brother has been driving a semi for many many years, he did his 2 year over the road dues, but since he has been driving local, home every day/night, he has been paid by the hour for most if not all them, he makes a lot of money, currently he drives midnight ish to 9amish for a company that delivers mail from place to place, in the past he has driven tankers (sulfuric acid), doubles, hauled nightly Pharmaceuticals (very dangerous job), he has had his Hazmat for ever it seems… He also hauled freight local for many many years… He always works as many hours as the laws allows… He is thinking about retiring next year…
Now I have a couple of uncles that drove long haul (team drivers) from NC to Cali every week and as hourly until they retired…
BTW TN is very strict on there CDL drivers, the every other year physical checks blood pressure, weight, how big your neck is, yes your neck can not be to big and drive a semi, if you are fat, you don’t drive, if you have BP a little high, no driving neck to big no driving etc etc…
However my bil drives a semi out Utah, had a heart attack while sitting shotgun on a team run and spent sometime in the hospital out of state, is very overweight and still has his CDL and driving long haul, not sure how but he still driving, so some states let things slide where others are very strict…
EDIT, my brother has been hourly for the last 24 years driving a semi now…
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+1
Yesterday, I was in back of a semi (I don’t recall the company) which bore an advertising message stating that 90% of their drivers are back home every night.
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For 3 years I had a Teamster job pulling long doubles (117 foot long0up and down the NY Thruway paid by the mile from terminal to terminal and home every night. Still paid by the mile. These days you can drive 11 hours a day so you can do about 600 miles a day legally.
I retired from trucking 30 years ago and deregulation in 1980 eventually destroyed almost all of the Class 1 common carrier union companies and the pay, adjusted for inflation has declined greatly. The quality of the driving has also declined.
The regulations of driving don’t mean much if you don’t have protection from being fired for refusing to violate them and of course no company would be so ■■■■■■as to admit that was the reason you were fired.
I thought California was center of bogus CDL issues but then saw news this week Minnesota has CDL issues also. The bogus food scam is bad enough. I assumed that CDL drivers may actually do work but it seems driving a semi poorly and injuring people is also a problem.
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It could have been worse. Determined to be excessive speed and following too close to the school bus. Had lanes open as soon as the trailer could be straightened. Took longer to clear the 5mi backuo. There was a detour on Martin way that was the highway before i5 existed. Not the same capacity.
From looking uo the company with one truck there was a srop that forced them off the road in November for no cd among other violations. Not sure how this lisd was booked but its an ongoing issur of shipments being subcontracted on a lisd board. Particularly cars being sent cross country.
Woly, were you â– â– â– â– â– when you typed that paragraph?
Edit: Geeze, d-r-u-n-k
Didn’t catch the typos this time. Tiny keyboon a android phone.
I really don’t think it matters all that much if you are paid hourly or by miles, the same holds true, you are given x amount of cargo for x amounts of stops and x amount of time to get it all done in when working for a company, now a days they gps track you and now ever move, turn, stop you make as well as the speed you are driving… So when they can squeeze just one more stop on the driver they have to drive just a little bit faster in order to make it…
The tractor my brother currently drives has so many safety features it makes my truck seem like it’s 50 years old… He hit a deer in it doing about 75 one night/early morning, he never saw it, just felt it, the camera caught him doing a very fast glance over at something, maybe his mirror when he hit the deer, they laughed cause of the oh c.r.a.p look he had when he felt it… But it 's safety features are on par with a Tesla, possible even more being a semi…, but yeah he has a camera pointed at his face anytime he is behind the wheel…
He was in line to pull through a gate when the semi in front of him for no good reason decided to back up, he laid down on the horn and the driver still back into him hard enough his tractor that it had to be towed… the guy jumped out blaming it on my brother, he advised the guy it would be better for his safety to get back in his cab, well the guy stuck to his story saying my brother rear ended him, his onboard cameras proved other wise, guy no longer drives for the company anymore… lol
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Those BMWs might just be hauled by a company that pays it’s drivers the least because it can undercut the price of the other companies.
I have hauled single, double and triple trailers. I have hazmat and tanker endorsements and had a Thruway Tandem permit that let me pull long double trailers on the NY Thruway. I have hauled dolid silver from Montreal to Kodak for film, nickle to the US mint, dynamite, small arms ammo. Liquid Oxygen and Nitrogen as well as high, wide, long and heavy loads, Dry vans flatbeds, high side open tops, refrigerated , meat reefers where the sides of meat or pork were hanging from hookle in the roof of the trailer and car haulers.
The only thing I got paid extra for were the double and triple trailer rigs. @ cents a mile and the third trailer 1 cent a mile. The only special qualification I had was the Thruway Tandem permit Every Class 1 tractor trailer general freight hauler needed all the rest.
How do you exit the Thruway to your destination with that rig?
As long as there’s good insurance that might work. But if there’s a few accidents the insurance company gonna start wondering about the quality of your drivers.